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Welcome to Dr Susan Harris Rimmer

Susan Harris Rimmer has recently joined the ANU School of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy as Director of Studies for the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy.

Susan brings 14 years’ experience as a lawyer, researcher, campaigner, and policy analyst on issues of human rights, refugees, international development, and women’s policy to the APCD. She is the outgoing President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, and a past board member of the UN Women National Committee Australia. Susan is the author of Gender and Transitional Justice: The Women of East Timor (Routledge 2010) and many refereed articles, and was the winner of the 2006 Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on the Human Rights of Women.

Susan’s research encompasses a broad range of issues in human rights, feminism, and international law; we at Regarding Rights are particularly looking forward to learning more about her developing work in diplomacy, human rights and civil society movements, and on the role of diplomacy as a normative practice to diminish conflict.

Recently, the blog IntLawGrrls featured a month-long series on the 1991 AJIL article ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’, by co-authors Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, and Shelley Wright. Here Hilary, Christine and Shelley conclude the series by reflecting on their article and its impact. View the original article here, and the IntLawGrrls series here. We would like to thank the editors of IntLawGrrls for allowing us to post ‘Looking Back on Feminist Approaches to International Law’ on Regarding Rights .

We are so grateful to Jaya Ramji-Nogales for organizing this IntLawGrrls series, to Jaya and our colleagues Sari Kouvo, Aoife O’Donoghue, Fiona de Londras, Siobhán Mullally, Doris Buss, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, and Diane Marie Amann for their generous posts, and to the readers who commented on those posts. It has been heartening to read the responses to our article and to see different ways of understanding it.

Our article, ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’, came to life in a haphazard way. Continue reading →